TY - JOUR AU - Rainisch, Gabriel AU - Shankar, Manjunath AU - Wellman, Michael AU - Merlin, Toby AU - Meltzer, Martin T1 - Regional Spread of Ebola Virus, West Africa, 2014 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2015 VL - 21 IS - 3 SP - 444 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To explain the spread of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and thus help with response planning, we analyzed publicly available data. We found that the risk for infection in an area can be predicted by case counts, population data, and distances between affected and nonaffected areas. KW - Ebola virus, hemorrhagic fever, Ebola KW - Ebola virus disease, epidemics, models, statistical models, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis KW - Ebola virus KW - hemorrhagic fever KW - Ebola KW - Ebola virus disease KW - epidemics KW - models KW - statistical models KW - geographic information systems KW - GIS KW - spatial analysis DO - 10.3201/eid2103.141845 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/3/14-1845_article ER - End of Reference